Twice Mine!

The story is told of a boy who built a toy sailboat and lost it on a large lake in the heart of the big city. Weeks later, he saw the boat—his boat—in a shop window, but, despite his pleas to the owner, was required to scrape together every penny he had to purchase that which his own hands had made. “Now you’re twice mine,” the boy said to the boat as he walked out of the store. “First, I made you, and then I paid to get you back!”

You can see the analogy, right? God made us, but sin put us in Satan’s shop window. In order to reclaim fallen humanity, a price had to be paid for sin—the ultimate price, in fact, being the death of Jesus, God’s only begotten Son, on a cross of shame.

God’s righteousness had to be satisfied, but if God simply destroyed every sinner, there would be no one left. “There is none righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:10).

The cost of redemption is beyond anything the human mind can imagine. Not only did Jesus have to come to earth as a human, He bore our sins and the required separation from God during an agonizing crucifixion. Think about it: Jesus, who spoke the world into existence—“by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible” (Colossians 1:16)—had to die in order to redeem the humans He made.

Like that little boy, Jesus can say of those who follow Him, “First I made you, and then I paid to redeem you!” When a sinner receives Christ as their Savior, their sins are wiped out, their debt is paid. And the reward is far better than being back on a young boy’s shelf!

Apply It:

Today, tell someone you know—or someone you’ve just met—that God loves them so much that He wants to call them “twice Mine.”

Dig Deeper:

Exodus 29:18; Leviticus 1:9; Ephesians 5:2

Key Bible Texts

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; (Romans 3:25 KJV)